Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Objects from Theban Tomb MMA 840” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Objects from Theban Tomb MMA 840
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1700 B.C.

View of the Theban Mountains from Kineh
Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

Relief from the Tomb of Nespekashuty
Artist not stated in the record · 656–650 BCE

Tomb Carving from the Museum at Athens, Greece
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 14-25, 1869

Sweret Bead
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–1981 B.C.

Plate Depicting Virgil's Tomb (Tomba di Virgilio), from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute")
Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1810–1820

Travelling Boat being Rowed
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Urn Tomb, Silk Tomb, and Corinthian Tomb, Petra, Jordan
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 26, 1868

Sa Amulet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–1981 B.C.

Tomb Portrait of Queen Isabella I of Castile
Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

Menat necklace from Malqata
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

The Royal Tombs at Petra, Jordan
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 25-27, 1868

Raised relief fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Stagecoach, Pompeii, Italy
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1869

Relief scene of sacred objects to be used in Khety's funeral
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

The Entombment, from The Little Passion Series
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 · ca. 1509–11

Uninscribed Scarab
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1700 B.C.

Gate of the Tomb of the Emperor Akbar, At Secundra, Near Agra, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"
Artist not stated in the record · 1795-1803

Nine Taweret Amulets
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1700 B.C.

Stage Design, Ancient Roman Tombs
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · early 19th century

Taweret Amulet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1700 B.C.

Ten Sketches of Tombs and a Mountainside, Petra, Jordan
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 26, 1868

Falcon Amulet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1700 B.C.

Proof for textile: The tomb of J.J.Rousseau
Oberkampf & Cie., Jouy-en-Josas, France, 1759–1815 · 1780
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 484 matched · 24 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1471061 matched · 40 examined · 22 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 22:00 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.